[ceph-users] Re: Load on drives of different sizes in ceph

2020-04-06 Thread Andras Pataki
Sure - you can play with the weights or crush weights to make sure that all drives fill evenly to their respective capacities.  The consequence of doing this is that about twice as much data will be on the drives with twice the size obviously.  But - a perhaps less glaring consequence is that t

[ceph-users] Re: Load on drives of different sizes in ceph

2020-04-06 Thread ceph
Is not there a way to Deal with this kind of setup when playing with the "weight" of an OSD? I dont mean the "crush weight". I am in a Situation where i had to Think about to add a Server with 24 x 2TB disks - my other osd nodes has 12 x 4TB. Which is in Sum 48TB per node in both situations.

[ceph-users] Re: Load on drives of different sizes in ceph

2020-03-31 Thread Anthony D'Atri
You can adjust the Primary Affinity down on the larger drives so they’ll get less read load. In one test I’ve seen this result in a 10-15% increase in read throughout but it depends on your situation. Optimal settings would require calculations that make my head hurt, maybe someone has a too

[ceph-users] Re: Load on drives of different sizes in ceph

2020-03-31 Thread Eneko Lacunza
Hi Andras, El 31/3/20 a las 16:42, Andras Pataki escribió: I'm looking for some advice on what to do about drives of different sizes in the same cluster. We have so far kept the drive sizes consistent on our main ceph cluster (using 8TB drives).  We're getting some new hardware with larger,